My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This review is dedicated to Dr. Anne Marie Foley, my favorite professor and teacher of the Honors College Seminar, "Dickens in His Time".
This book was sitting on the new arrivals shelf and I picked it up based on its title. I've never read anything by Matthew Pearl and I am unfamiliar with his work, but I took a Dickens seminar during the fall semester of my sophomore year in college and he is one of my favorite authors.
The book is the fictionalized story of Dicken's American publishers' search to find the ending to Dickens' final and incomplete novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (sadly, one of the few Dickens novels I have NOT read). Like any good mystery, it starts off with a murder and contains several flashbacks referring to Dickens' previous reading tour of the U.S. and a suspenseful hunt for a possible second half of the novel. Along the way, we meet many interesting characters, including the real people that may have been the basis for the characters in Dickens' final masterpiece.
I would definitely recommend it for anyone who likes historical fiction that includes real historical figures and those who love literature and a good mystery.
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